Scruff, the tragic flagon….

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Ffolkes,

“The living world is a continuum in each and every aspect.”

~~ A. C. Kinsey, The Kinsey Report ~~

Clean elephant

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside….


Hajime…. Okay, so, here’s the deal. I’ll write ’em, you read ’em. Deal? Deal.

Of course, this presupposes I will be able to come up with something to write. Since that, at the moment, seems a rather remote possibility, we’ll cut this intro off before it gets rolling, keeping us trapped here again. So short, you’ll need to keep the oxygen handy…. It looks like this…..

Shall we Pearl?….

“And those who were seen dancing
were thought to be insane
by those who could not hear the music.”

~~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~~


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mozart2

    I’m in a mood, & when I’m in a mood, this is who I listen to…. Today, you can listen, too…. Even if you’re not in a mood…… Enjoy!….


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Mozart Symphonies

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le penseur-rodin

“Grown men do not need leaders.”

~~ Edward Abbey ~~


The quote from Ed Abbey is a perfect lead for a rant on a subject I can write about endlessly, apparently. I’ve related any number of times how humanity needs to grow up, give up the illusions of their fearful youth, and learn to face the damn universe with some courage…. But, has anyone listened, other than the choir who end up here, listening to me preach? No, not really, for they don’t wish to hear they need to stop acting like children….

To save y’all from any further haranguing on this, I decided to sublimate, with some thoughts from historical figures, all of whom have seen the same issues during their own time on Earth, and wished to give warning to those who will not see…. There are only nine, so, don’t fret too much; besides, I know my Gentle Readers could, using these aphorisms, create the same rant I might have written, had I gone with the urge to do so…. Enjoy, if only for its brevity…..

“I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: ‘The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that’s fair.’ In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.” — Bertrand Russell, Education and the Social Order

“There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.” — Hugh Downs

“If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” — Anatole France

“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.” — Noah Webster

“In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.” — H.L. Mencken

“Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything?   If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.” — Will Rogers

“Held to be a crime when committed by individuals, homicide is called a virtue when committed by the state.” — Obvious Bee

“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them [public offices], a rottenness begins in his conduct.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1799

“The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.” — Edward Abbey

“Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?” — Michael de Montaigne — Essays, Book ii, Chap. xxxvi, Of the most Excellent Men

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Comedy_Tragedy

    As noted above, I’m in a mood. In this mood, only one poet will do…. In fact, we’ll overdo, with two….

Had we our senses
But perhaps ’tis well they’re not at Home
So intimate with Madness
He’s liable with them

Had we the eyes without our Head —
How well that we are Blind —
We could not look upon the Earth —
So utterly unmoved —

~~ Emily Dickinson ~~

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Said Death to Passion
‘Give of thine an Acre unto me.’
Said Passion, through contracting Breaths
‘A Thousand Times Thee Nay.’

Bore Death from Passion
All His East
He – sovereign as the Sun
Resituated in the West
And the Debate was done.

~~ Emily Dickinson ~~


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pearls_3

    Easy money here, ffolkes. It’s just a classic nine-star pearl about living life large…. Well, I think so; if not, you tell me what it says….

I care not, Fortune, what you me deny:
You cannot rob me of free Nature’s grace,
You cannot shut the windows of the sky
Through which Aurora shows her brightening face;
You cannot bar my constant feet to trace
The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve:
Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace,
And I their toys to the great children leave:
Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me bereave.

~~ James Thomson. The Castle of Indolence, Canto ii, Stanza 3 ~~


“Let honor be as strong to us an obligation as necessity is to others.” — Pliny the Elder

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.” — Robert Cody

“True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.” — Halifax

“Once, I read that a man be never stronger than when he truly realizes how weak he is.” — Jim Starlin, “Captain Marvel #31”

“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.” — Confucius

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.  I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.  Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me.  It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.” — George Bernard Shaw

Listen to the MUSTN’TS child,
Listen to the DON’TS
Listen to the SHOULDN’TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVE’S
Then listen close to me-
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.

 ~ Shel Silverstein ~~


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That went well, don’t you think? No? Well, I do, and guess who’s driving this bus? Yep. To keep with the tone set in the intro, I’m outta here. See y’all tomorrow, given the proper set of Time/Space coordinates….

Y’all take care out there,
and May the Metaphorse be with you;
Blessed Be, dearest Carole, Mark,Theresa, & Richy
and everyone else, too…

When I works, I works hard.
When I sits, I sits loose.
When I thinks, I falls asleep.

Which is Why….

Sometimes I sits and thinks,
   and sometimes,
I just sits.

gigoid, the dubious

The *only* duly authorized Computer Curmudgeon.

PLEASE STOP READING THIS MESSAGE NOW.

“SCRAM!!!!!!!!!!”- Oscar the Grouch

dozer3


À bientôt, mon cherí….




		
	
			

			
						


	



						

	
	
			

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    A pound of wisdom is the cure of experience.. Thanks God.. for Google.. For i can find out if someone quoted the Universal Poet whose name is Truth and liGht.. first.. Or paraphrased..  Who resides in All experience.. Both human and other creature.. As is.. et..al..:)
    

    As far as i and Madonna.. Know and feel.. This Truth and LiGht iS the True Timeless.. Ageless.. Illuminati.. Gifted by and to ALL THAT IS aka God and infinite numbers of other ‘bible’ metaphors.. Infinity grins with truth and LiGht.. iN uS..:)
    

    Reference song by Madonna named ‘Illuminati’.. Highly inspirational for uS iN the REAL kNow and Feel of GOD.. The Universal Poet.. aka Emily.. Et..al..;)
    

    Yes.. and God wInks.. Too..:)
    

    

				
    
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    That was rather short for me.. wasn’t iT..
    
And albeit dOne first in paragraph style..
    
lacking ‘normal’ punctuation of course
    
as semi-colons are silly to me..
    
as language doesn’t stop
    
and start iT flows
    
like a River..
    
at least
    
iN UniVersal
    
style of living
    
free.. hehe..
    
this is a hiGhly
    
inspiRinG collection
    
of words you bRinG
    
here.. like RinGs of
    
Lord.. so kNow that
    
i am not typing with
    
one finger on mobile now..
    
lacking the more creative
    
rest of my left hand too..
    
here’s more from me..
    
as you likely know..
    
Puff the Magic
    
Dragon could
    
be a
    
metaphor
    
for the
    
man of
    
Galilee
    
named Jesus
    
now.. and wow wouldn’t
    
the thought/feeling of Jesus frolicking
    
instead of getting crucified for going
    
against the gRain of order then be so
    
much more deliGhtful.. i must agree..
    
that a purple dragon.. Jesus..
    
kinda like Barney.. is such
    
a nicer.. less sacrificing
    
story than a GOD man
    
nailed to a cross..
    
but the saddest
    
truth iS.. iF
    
Jesus wasn’t
    
made into a magical sacrificed
    
dragon.. his words.. whatever
    
is left of that UniVersal Poet
    
from his mouth would have
    
never been attributed to
    
him.. just to Emily
    
and infinite others
    
heRe and tHere and
    
everywheRe the UniVerse
    
SinGS free iN children
    
of and iS ALLTHATIS..
    
Christ.. that’s a cool
    
word for illuminati too..
    
as expresSinG as human
    
too.. and sure to make iT one
    
man iS insane.. but of course humans
    
have this thingy about Loving tHeir favorite
    
Quarterback of the local football team.. so
    
we have the sport of religion.. first to replace
    
football.. and Jesus to replace the favorite
    
Quarterback then and still now with
    
Football.. and favorite manly Quarter
    
backs too.. as that Tribal Instinct
    
thingy to conserve resources..
    
small or large.. is a mighty
    
powerful.. Nature thingy..
    
all Natural too..
    
the most ironic
    
pArt of all perhaps..
    
is it seems.. that if you
    
lived back in them days of
    
Jesus.. he probably would have
    
selected you as another one of
    
his politically incorrect against the
    
order of the day UniVersal poet dudes
    
too.. speaking of the wisdom that lives
    
within the experience of us.. with sure
    
that LiGht of Love stuff too.. as of
    
course it is the essence that
    
counts not the words
    
that house
    
or exist
    
as Truth
    
and LiGht..
    
now or then…
    
only ironic of course..
    
for the label of atheist..
    
and on a personal note
    
speaking of dealing with
    
the order of the day.. my favorite
    
pArt of the two of three clinical letters still
    
assigning me to the lot of the permanently
    
disabled among us.. in one of those it says
    
‘he’ cannot function optimally in society.. of course
    
with diagnoses specific to the ‘mind’ issue of
    
Asperger’s and Bi-Polar NOS.. with one
    
Doctor narrowing iT down to type
    
one flavor..  technically that’s
    
true as far as paper work
    
goes.. and i have to
    
admit.. back in the
    
day before
    
i got
    
more
    
experience of Wisdom
    
too.. hiring someone with
    
Bi-polar.. and Autism..
    
would make me
    
a little
    
cautious
    
too.. but i never wanted
    
to manage folks anyway for
    
reasons just like that..
    
too much
    
empathy
    
here for all of
    
the human condition
    
to turn humans away on
    
the street.. as it were and
    
still is now.. overall.. at least..
    
but seriously how often when a child
    
is dropped in our cultures does that child
    
really get a chance to function optimally per all
    
his or her human potential.. it varies of course.. depending
    
on how closed-minded the culture is overall.. some folks..
    
particularly women.. are restricted to opening and
    
closing their legs.. insert penis.. in and out..
    
when reaching a certain age.. have children
    
and that’s it.. but of course not all
    
women are cut out to
    
have children..
    
and the
    
children
    
of the
    
women.. forced
    
into institutional
    
rape.. suffer at the
    
mother who is not cut
    
out to nurture children.. and
    
then we get.. cold hearted kids both
    
in a genetic and environmental way..
    
future suicide bombers.. terrorists..
    
and perhaps serial killers too..
    
and administrators of
    
countries like
    
GW.. too..
    
and no..
    
i don’t really
    
think i for one..
    
was cut out to have
    
kids either.. the sacred
    
clown thingy.. two spirit..
    
and all of that.. is obviously
    
my destiny now.. and that is
    
cool.. as appropriate social
    
roles are the path
    
to world
    
peace..
    
for those
    
who are fortunate
    
enough to fulfill tHeir
    
innate potential now..
    
and the greaTEst news
    
is.. the rebels.. of the world
    
are many of the one’s who bRinG
    
technological advancements to take
    
us way out of our restricted local areas..
    
no matter what country we are in.. to experience
    
MORE MORE MORE WISDOM AND TRUTH..
    
YES.. TRUTH AND LIGHT.. THE ILLUMINATI
    
AND CHRIST LIGHT
    
METAPHOR POTENTIAL
    
IN ALL OF US..
    
NOW..
    
jesus.. i’m pretty
    
sure.. the real jesus
    
would be jumping up and
    
down.. saying.. see.. i told
    
y’all heaven was possible..
    
great job.. UniVersal
    
Poets.. now
    
keep up
    
the Good
    
GOD
    
WORK
    
NOW..
    
iN
    
TRuTH
    
and LiGHT..
    
WE ARE FINALLY
    
FREE.. weLL at
    
least some
    
of uS
    
anyway..
    
sMiLEs
    
and wINKS..
    
i no longer function
    
according to the rule
    
and order of society
    
FALSE.. CHRiST
    
iS now
    
ME!..
    
TG FREE!
    
frolicking
    
to my
    
purple
    
dragon
    
MAGIC
    
CONTENT..
    
and as a final anecdotal
    
note.. as often happens when
    
i do my lap around the entire
    
Seville Quarter complex after
    
i rave dance for a solid three
    
hours with not even a
    
water break..
    
inevitably some
    
young folks in their
    
early 20’s come up
    
to get to know  me a
    
little better
    
in words more
    
than steps.. and they
    
often fist bump me first..
    
and most always tell me
    
that they wish so much they
    
could have fun in life all the time
    
like i do WITH ZERO EXCEPTION
    
ALWAYS LIKE A BRIGHT AND
    
SHINY STAR.. i’m para-
    
phraSinG a little
    
of course..
    
but that
    
matches
    
the look in tHeir
    
eyes.. when they too..
    
are feeling the truth and
    
liGht of me.. FACE TO
    
FACE.. EYE TO EYE
    
(:..with shades..;)
    
WE BECOME
    
ONE FORCE
    
OF HUMAN
    
TOGETHER
    
FOR A
    
MOMENT
    
OF A PRESENT NOW..
    
and the truth and liGht..
    
IS.. no one.. and i do mean
    
NO ONE.. EVER WILL FORGET
    
THE LESSON i BrINg TO THEM..
    
THAT AGE.. GENDER.. DISABILITY
    
OR NOT FUCKING EVEN MENTAL
    
FUCKING ILLNESS
    
iS A BARRIER
    
TO FUCKING
    
BEING
    
FREE
    
AND FUCKING
    
HAPPIER THAN FUCKING
    
ANY FUCKING OTHER PERSON
    
ON THIS FUCKING PLANET NOW..
    
but of course i didn’t tale them that
    
they already
    
saw iT
    
IN
    
my feat
    
of dancing
    
free as GOD…
    
Crazy has its
    
perks..
    
hehe..
    
here iN
    
HEAVEN..:)
    

    

				
    
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